A friend and I drove up there around the 1980-time frame. The dirt road was in excellent condition. At that time there were some people (squatters} living in the wood homes across from the mill and up the hill from it. Funny thing is that we were scanning the area with binoculars and then we noticed the people in those homes were also looking at us through binoculars.
@@raymondsmith6504 Those were most likely hippies in those cabins. We continued on up the road until we reached the mountain ridge. We continued on the road to the South. Not too far to the South of that point the mountain has a large flat area. I remember that a long wide "road" was in the middle of it. It looked like you could land an airplane on it and of course we speculated about that. It ran East/West.
Wow, what a challenge. Amazing how much water there was. I've never seen so much in the desert. And, just breathtakingly beautiful footage. The stone walls and structures are very impressive. So happy you made it back safely to share this with us. Happy belated Veterans Day. So excited for the part 2.
Wonderful video, all that horsetail plant on near that water! my pops suffered from kidney stones when i was a kid, he would make a tea out of horsetail and was able to secrete that stone! painful, but it worked!
Hey WMD, back in the early 1970s my brother and I and some friends drove 4X4 vehicles up to the town. There were a few 'interesting' places on the way up. Later in the 70s storms and flooding made the trail much more difficult. Some even worse storms and flooding in the mid 80s made the jeep trail pretty much impassable. Getting up there now days is quite a hike. But, you know that. I'm anxious to see the whole series of your hike.
The big truck was a Pacific Electrical & Mechanical Company service truck. The blue / green one is a 1950s Ford pick up. The size of those vehicles shows how good the road used to be.
Our family and 3 others back in mid 70s we drove up there in 4x4s and dirt bikes there was a general from El Toro MCAS LIVING in the old shack he had a double barrel stot gun nice old guy he welcomed welcomed us in
Ohh nice man! It was a really fun, yet strenuous hike. I'm just glad I got up there pretty much at sunset and the next day I got to check out more of the town and the mines. Happy exploring 🙏
Beautiful hike up, can't wait for the next two videos. I can't understand though how those trucks are up there. In some areas it seems so narrow and there is no way a road could be in parts of the canyon. Did they wash down from above and there's another road to get to the town from the other side?
With all that equipment and stuff there it definitely produced a lot of whatever was coming out of there! I prefer placer mining! ⛏️ I want to be above ground!
The yellow electrical truck that looks kind of like a school bus could be related to that piece of equipment with tires that you find earlier, it looks like the same color and the electrical truck is missing its axles and chassis.
My Brother and I hiked up there about 30 years a go. I wasn't in very good shape and it was 5mi all up hill. Glad we did it now but doing it in a day wore us out.
Last message, 9:09/38:32 The wood structure is a tram tower, and the cable goes to the mine. There is more information regarding this area from Dusty Trails
WOW.....quite the hike...........with all the streams flowing through.......is the water drinkable, say with a Sawyer device.......or would it be contaminated from the mining activity???........thanks..looking forward to part 2=3........
WOW Simply stunning. Thank you for sharing. How on earth they got those trucks up there and the rest of the equipment is astounding. best wishes from England. MAGA+MEGA=❤
I really like your videos I'm watching all of them now would you care to share the mountain range location and I apologize if you've already done that in the comments your videos are inspiring me to redesign my bucket list
Yes! There's a spring at an elevation of almost 5k feet that has good flowing water coming out of it. And goes down to the mouth of the canyon and into the valley thousands of feet below.
Where is this? I couldn't find the name of the state or region. Thank you for this video. Very amazing place you shared with all the world 🌎 God Bless you 🙏
That really sucks during WW2 people took the equipment to scrap it for the steal! It destroyed the equipment if they wanted to come back and keep mining after the war! So sad!
Before there was a flood in '84 the road up there was actually quite decent. Wild to think about seeing that there's so much exposed bedrock in many portions of the canyon!
There used to be a road up the canyon up until the 1980s and offroaders winched their rigs up the falls into the 90s. Wild to think the road has been completely washed.
A friend and I drove up there around the 1980-time frame. The dirt road was in excellent condition. At that time there were some people (squatters} living in the wood homes across from the mill and up the hill from it. Funny thing is that we were scanning the area with binoculars and then we noticed the people in those homes were also looking at us through binoculars.
Like the Clint Eastwood cowboy film ha.
In the mid 1970s the road was drivable. Went up there about half a dozen times. Most of the cabins had people (hippies) living in them.
@@raymondsmith6504 Those were most likely hippies in those cabins. We continued on up the road until we reached the mountain ridge. We continued on the road to the South. Not too far to the South of that point the mountain has a large flat area. I remember that a long wide "road" was in the middle of it. It looked like you could land an airplane on it and of course we speculated about that. It ran East/West.
Ha ha ha ha! Smart guys! I. Would also if I was living up there!
That canyon hike was beautiful with the flowing water and waterfalls.
I'm looking forward to the next episode.
You should bring a gold panning pan and check out those creeks!
Wow, what a challenge. Amazing how much water there was. I've never seen so much in the desert. And, just breathtakingly beautiful footage. The stone walls and structures are very impressive. So happy you made it back safely to share this with us. Happy belated Veterans Day. So excited for the part 2.
so awesome ! happy veteran's day sir!
America is both a rugged and at the same time naturally beautiful country.
Beautiful special place. Water in the desert. A miracle. Thanks for doing this.
Thanks!
Thanks for the donation! Glad you enjoyed this one 😊
What a great video! You've got another subscriber here. I can't wait for part 2!
Hotdog….another super explosive video from Mister WMD man…..thanks big time!
What a great hike!! I bet the solo expedition felt pretty meditative. I want to do one of those some time soon. Great video mate!!
early 60s ford f100 step side
Beautiful area. Love the waterfalls.
Jerith,you are so incredibly knowledgeable about all this history.I love watching your videos!!
Anot brilliant episode my friend! Your content simply never disappoints! Never!!
Spectacular! Thanks so much for the tour!
Hard to believe that up until the early 80’s you could drive up there on a graded gravel road.
Great video yet again. Thanks for taking us (me) along for the view.
Wonderful video, all that horsetail plant on near that water! my pops suffered from kidney stones when i was a kid, he would make a tea out of horsetail and was able to secrete that stone! painful, but it worked!
I've hiked that 3 times love this place!
Hey WMD, back in the early 1970s my brother and I and some friends drove 4X4 vehicles up to the town. There were a few 'interesting' places on the way up. Later in the 70s storms and flooding made the trail much more difficult. Some even worse storms and flooding in the mid 80s made the jeep trail pretty much impassable. Getting up there now days is quite a hike. But, you know that. I'm anxious to see the whole series of your hike.
Thanks for the awesome hiking adventure 👍🏼🤘🏼
The big truck was a Pacific Electrical & Mechanical Company service truck. The blue / green one is a 1950s Ford pick up. The size of those vehicles shows how good the road used to be.
Our family and 3 others back in mid 70s we drove up there in 4x4s and dirt bikes there was a general from El Toro MCAS LIVING in the old shack he had a double barrel stot gun nice old guy he welcomed welcomed us in
You have the best places to hike. Thanks for taking us along. 👍
Awesome hike. The waterfall was amazing
Car or pickup rear axle. Happy veterans day. Thank you for your service.
Thanks man! Had a great vets day. Hope you enjoyed this one.
I love your mine series. Thank you for sharing!
Very cool stuff you found today. I loved this video!
Watch out for rattle snakes 🐍!! Great video
Thanks for the video 😊. Really enjoyed it 😊
That was awesome!
You do mines the best. Thank you. I will watch the rest of the series.
Thanks very much for that! I agree I think I do too, I checked out a few good ones in the next vid 😉
Very cool video
I love these solo adventures. So often the chatter in the background is very distracting
Keep em coming!!! Looking forward to part 2
This was my first backpacking place about a decade ago. Love the history and hike here. I try to do this trip every other year if not every year.
Ohh nice man! It was a really fun, yet strenuous hike. I'm just glad I got up there pretty much at sunset and the next day I got to check out more of the town and the mines. Happy exploring 🙏
Love it!
Beautiful hike up, can't wait for the next two videos. I can't understand though how those trucks are up there. In some areas it seems so narrow and there is no way a road could be in parts of the canyon. Did they wash down from above and there's another road to get to the town from the other side?
sweet hike!
Watching your video and commenting as I go
With all that equipment and stuff there it definitely produced a lot of whatever was coming out of there! I prefer placer mining! ⛏️ I want to be above ground!
The yellow electrical truck that looks kind of like a school bus could be related to that piece of equipment with tires that you find earlier, it looks like the same color and the electrical truck is missing its axles and chassis.
that would be a Ford Custom Cab brand. Thanks for the video!
Enjoy your show. I did notice a rear in. With its gear showing. Either a car or truck rear in.
Yes , for the arrastra(sp) for finer grinding of the ore ! First one were turned by beasts of burden .
My Brother and I hiked up there about 30 years a go. I wasn't in very good shape and it was 5mi all up hill. Glad we did it now but doing it in a day wore us out.
The snake grass at 11:03 is bent over, and looks like a critter of some sort used it to bed down.
Very cool as always and as for that truck it was a 60’s Chevy pick up truck!👍🏻😎🇺🇸🦅😇🙏
Ford
There’s got to be gold in that gravel get your gold sluice and pan out!
Last message, 9:09/38:32 The wood structure is a tram tower, and the cable goes to the mine. There is more information regarding this area from Dusty Trails
WOW.....quite the hike...........with all the streams flowing through.......is the water drinkable, say with a Sawyer device.......or would it be contaminated from the mining activity???........thanks..looking forward to part 2=3........
"Chevy... GMC... Maybe even a Dodge." Me inside "Just one more choice!" It's a Ford. :)
Bahaha! I saw the thumbnail, and I was like, "I know a canyon that looks just like this!" lol Then I saw it was you.
Gold!
Yep ford pick up, dash is a dead giveaway 😮 Chevy has a smaller dash hole 😊
Wonder how the hell those trucks get in that canyon,flooding or not,cant wait for the next one😊
That bird was a chuckar
Where is this located? It's a beautiful hike and area.
Vacation . At bubbling spring . White water . Mount Horeb. Yep .
Awesome.
WOW Simply stunning. Thank you for sharing. How on earth they got those trucks up there and the rest of the equipment is astounding. best wishes from England. MAGA+MEGA=❤
Fabulous video and scenery ..thank you for a huge effort to show these places full of history ..
From Australia
I really like your videos I'm watching all of them now would you care to share the mountain range location and I apologize if you've already done that in the comments your videos are inspiring me to redesign my bucket list
What a gorgeous hike indeed watching from Australia. Does all that water come from a natural spring that high up?
Yes! There's a spring at an elevation of almost 5k feet that has good flowing water coming out of it. And goes down to the mouth of the canyon and into the valley thousands of feet below.
@@WesternMineDetective Wow nice indeed thanks for the reply.
Where is this? I couldn't find the name of the state or region. Thank you for this video. Very amazing place you shared with all the world 🌎 God Bless you 🙏
Think about all of the gold nuggets trapped on that exposed bedrock that you passed by.
First thing I thought. I would be panning the whole time
Pickup - after the big tipped over truck was a Early '60 Ford Custom Cab truck.
Early 60's ford pick up.
1964
That really sucks during WW2 people took the equipment to scrap it for the steal! It destroyed the equipment if they wanted to come back and keep mining after the war! So sad!
sehr interessant!
Do you carry a satellite locating device with you in these situations?
Yes I carry my Garmin Inreach along with me, thanks for wondering.
I’m old school. I have my internal gps. Only got lost once. Scared me for a while
Well you can pan for gold there? I would bring everything I got up there to look for gold?
❤❤❤why is there no houses or trees
26:15 did you find the geocache??
Was that a spring? Or did it go further up hill?
Where does all that water end up? Does it just sink back in to the ground?
When it hits the valley to the east it sinks into the vast playa.
@@hestheMaster , ooh , aahh ☺
I e never seen that vine thing in the desert?
How did that big truck go up the falls?
Before there was a flood in '84 the road up there was actually quite decent. Wild to think about seeing that there's so much exposed bedrock in many portions of the canyon!
Aren't you afraid of there being monsters out there especially at night time.❤
The monsters mostly come at night.
... mostly.
@RyeOnHam yes most people don't believe in monsters until they see one or hear them screaming
I think the yellow thing is a old electric train engine for the tracks in the mine
29:15 It's a '60s Ford pickup.
Amazing wrecked vehicles. Were there roads nearby or would those motorists be WAY off the beaten track to have ended up there?
There used to be a road up the canyon up until the 1980s and offroaders winched their rigs up the falls into the 90s. Wild to think the road has been completely washed.
@@WesternMineDetective Brilliant, thanks for the info!
It’s a gmc or Chevy truck now how did it get there? Got to be a road?
Your suspension at the beginning sounds like it's ready to get some attention.
They had to have had some road up there?
Ford Pick up !!!!!
What were they mining for?
You seem to have no fear of Western Diamondback rattlesnakes.
Back in the 90s there was a flash flood and made cyn impassable to vehicles
The dead bird is a Chukar.
😀
That truck with custom cab on it was a Ford and so is the other one that after it
That's not Montgomery is it? You can drive all the way to the town if it is
Pickup is a 1964 Ford
If they weren't looking for copper, what were they looking for?
Gold.
Many of the mines above the town struck silver but yes many of the mines had good copper and a bit of gold
Why don't people set out earlier in the day?
I left my place at 3 am.. and with an old Jeep like this took me about 6 hours to get up to the start of the trailhead
The truck is a Chevy C10. Straight 6 Super 250 with 3 on the tree. Had a 64 as my first truck
Are you positive that your first truck wasn't an early to mid-60s Ford F-series pickup??? 🤔
@@straybullitt The green/blue trunk is a 1964 Ford pickup.
Ford from 1961 to 1966
62 to 66 ford f-100/f-350?...some guys would love to have that instead of a korean repop...
It's a Ford truck
That's a ford pickup
the truck is a ford